CHEMIST

Edward Charles Howard

1774 - 1816

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Edward Charles Howard FRS (28 May 1774 – 28 September 1816) the youngest brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, was a British chemist who has been described as "the first chemical engineer of any eminence.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Charles Howard has received more than 59,514 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Edward Charles Howard is the 497th most popular chemist (down from 428th in 2019), the 3,531st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,758th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 2.35

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Edward Charles Howard ranks 497 out of 602. Before him are Heinrich Caro, C. N. R. Rao, Christian Gmelin, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Hans Goldschmidt, and Johannes Wislicenus. After him are Oswald Schmiedeberg, Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Jacob Volhard, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Adolph Frank, and Ivan Horbachevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Edward Charles Howard ranks 36. Before him are Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, Johnny Appleseed, Juan Aldama, Luis Eduardo Pérez, and W. J. Coffee. After him are Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Michael Levytsky, Robert Jameson, John Colter, and Johann Jakob Bernhardi. Among people deceased in 1816, Edward Charles Howard ranks 29. Before him are Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Dorothea Jordan, Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Dorothea Viehmann, and Christian Konrad Sprengel. After him are Samuel Dexter, Hipólito Ruiz López, Domenico Vandelli, Gouverneur Morris, and James McHenry.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Charles Howard ranks 3,531 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Jarrott (1927), Juliet Mills (1941), Naseem Hamed (1974), Sophie Okonedo (1968), Patricia Routledge (1929), and Thomas Fuller (1608). After him are Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852), John Arbuthnot (1667), Hywel Dda (880), Sheena Easton (1959), Michael Berry (1941), and Joe Alwyn (1991).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Edward Charles Howard ranks 64. Before him are William Gregor (1761), William Nicholson (1753), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Charles Blagden (1748), David MacMillan (1968), and William Hallowes Miller (1801). After him are Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Robin Hill (1899), Leslie Orgel (1927), Neil Bartlett (1932), John Mayow (1640), and John Roebuck (1718).

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